This is a journal, not a blog.
The differences are as follows:

1. You don't need to know what music I'm listening to - in fact, I rarely do listen to music. Furthermore, if my mood is not apparent from my writing, it's irrelevant. Lastly, should I post links to quizzes or my answers to said quizzes more than, say, once a quarter - you, the reader, have my permission and encouragement to hunt me down and shoot me with my very own Desert Eagle. And make it the 50 cal.
2. I won't be whining about emotional reactions to personal matters which are irrelevant to the audience. You may hear about widespread apocalyptic devastation applied to my house, but only if I have cool pictures or think the story is amusing / informative. And while I have dreams of achieving a Dave Barry kind of humor here, I have no illusion that I'm going to manage it.
3. An adjunct and reinforcement to point #2: I will not whine about or even mention personal drama between friends. I particularly will not whine in my journal, about online personal drama going on in other journals. This is why I refuse to call this a blog: blogs are whine amplifiers, spreading the meme of whining throughout an entire network of peers. Like chain letters, blog drama dies if you don't pass it on.
4. I am going to chronicle the gradual home improvement process, the acquisition of various random cruft, interesting discoveries usually made in Linux, and a fair amount of gun info. Mostly, this journal is to show I'm doing something with my time. What I will not be doing is deciding that I'm a 'news portal' and repeating news which you can get in better detail elsewhere. The signal:noise ratio on the internet is bad enough already.
5. The goal here is to let my family and friends see what's going on in my life. The average blog surfer who actually enjoys reading a twisted internet hybrid of soap opera and reality TV will hopefully be bored senseless. On the other hand, I hope some entries get indexed by Google, Yahoo, etc so that folks looking for answers I was looking for earlier, will find them more easily.
6. I may, some day, set up commentary capabilities. In the meantime though, if you know me, you probably know my email address. Use it.
7. Unless it directly impacts something worth writing about, you are not going to know if I'm sick, injured, etc. That constitutes Whining (tm).